Barbara Engelking Explained

Birth Date:22 April 1962
Birth Place:Warsaw, Poland
Workplaces:Polish Center for Holocaust Research
Era:20th century
Main Interests:Holocaust in Poland
Major Works:

Dalej jest noc (Night Without End) (editor)
Alma Mater:Polish Academy of Sciences
University of Warsaw

Barbara Engelking (born 22 April 1962) is a Polish psychologist and sociologist specializing in Holocaust studies.[1] The founder and director of the Polish Center for Holocaust Research in Warsaw, she is the author or editor of several works on the Holocaust in Poland.

Education and career

Born in Warsaw, Engelking received an MA in psychology from the University of Warsaw in 1988 and a Ph.D. in sociology from the Polish Academy of Sciences, also in Warsaw,[2] for a thesis on The Experience of the Holocaust and its Consequences in Autobiographical Accounts (1993).[3]

Since 1993, Engelking has been an assistant then associate professor at the Polish Center for Holocaust Research, part of the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology at the Polish Academy of Sciences.[3] Since 2014, she has been chair of Poland's .[4] [5] From November 2015 until April 2016, she was the Ina Levine Invitational Scholar at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Mandel Center in Washington, D.C.[2]

Works

Engelking's book (2009), written with Jacek Leociak, provides detailed maps of the ghetto so that readers can locate the streets and former community structures. Michael Marrus described it as "a stunning work, one of the most important books on the history of the Nazi Holocaust".[6]

In a review of Engelking's book (2016), first published in Polish in 2012, Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe wrote that it challenged the German tendency to neglect non-German Holocaust perpetrators, as well as the Polish tendency to view Poles in German-occupied Poland entirely as victims.[7] In 2013 historian Samuel Kassow described Engelking's work and that of three other scholars (Jan Grabowski, Alina Skibińska, and Dariusz Libionka) as a "historical achievement of the first order", undermining "the self-serving myths about Polish-Jewish relations in World War II".[8]

In 2018 Engelking and Grabowski co-edited Dalej jest noc: losy Żydów w wybranych powiatach okupowanej Polski (Night without End: The Fate of Jews in German-Occupied Poland), a two-volume, 1,600-page study of nine counties in German-occupied Poland during the Holocaust.[9]

In February 2021, a Warsaw court ruled that Grabowski and Engelking must apologize for their claims about Edward Malinowski (the sołtys of the Polish village of Malinowo) in Dalej jest noc;[10] in August, the ruling was overturned by an appeals court.[11]

Selected works

Notes and References

  1. News: Heller . Aron . Polish historian's book on killing of Jews exposes raw nerve . The Times of Israel . Associated Press . 16 March 2017.
  2. Web site: Fellow Dr. Barbara Engelking . . https://web.archive.org/web/20181202072155/https://www.ushmm.org/research/competitive-academic-programs/fellows-and-scholars/all-fellows-and-scholars/dr-barbara-engelking . 2 December 2018. live.
  3. Web site: Barbara Engelking . . https://web.archive.org/web/20190302090527/http://www.holocaustresearch.pl/index.php?show=13&lang=en . 2 March 2019. live.
  4. Web site: IAC Members . Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum . https://web.archive.org/web/20190528222533/http://auschwitz.org/en/museum/auschwitz-council/iac-members/ . 28 May 2019. live.
  5. Web site: Petelewicz . Jakub . Partner in EHRI: the Polish Center for Holocaust Research . European Holocaust Research Infrastructure . https://archive.today/20190620052924/https://www.ehri-project.eu/partner-ehri-polish-center-holocaust-research . 20 June 2019 . 25 April 2016 . live . 20 June 2019 .
  6. News: Marrus . Michael R. . Michael Marrus . Review: The Warsaw Ghetto: A Guide to the Perished City, by Barbara Engelking and Jacek Leociak . The Globe and Mail . 28 August 2009 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190614010950/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books-and-media/review-the-warsaw-ghetto-a-guide-to-the-perished-city-by-barbara-engelking-and-jacek-leociak/article4293663/ . 14 June 2019. live.
  7. Book: Rossolinski-Liebe, Grzegorz . Sammelrezension: Polnische Beteiligung am Holocaust . Collective review: Polish participation in the Holocaust . H-Soz-Kult . 18 April 2012 . 9788393220205 . 1 December 2018 . de.
  8. Kassow . Samuel . 2013 . Essay review of: Jan Grabowski, Judenjagd, B. Engelking, Jest Taki Piekny Sloneczny dzien and B. Engelking and J. Grabowski, Zarys Krajobrazu . Yad Vashem Studies . v. 41 (1) . 216–217.
  9. https://www.jta.org/2018/05/11/default/poles-helped-kill-jews-hiding-nazis-study-claims Study says Polish neighbors betrayed many more Jews than previously thought
  10. Web site: Polish court orders historians to apologise over Holocaust book. Reuters. Alan. Charlish. Anna. Wlodarczak-Semczuk. 9 February 2021. 10 February 2021.
  11. Web site: 2021-08-16. Polish appeals court dismisses claims against Holocaust book historians. 2021-08-16. Reuters. en.
  12. News: Syder . Timothy . Timothy Snyder . Jews, Poles & Nazis: The Terrible History . The New York Review of Books . 24 June 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20160414043442/https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2010/06/24/jews-poles-nazis-terrible-history/. 14 April 2016. live.
  13. Web site: Bill . Stanley . Poles and the Holocaust: New Research, Old Controversies . Notes from Poland . https://archive.today/20190620012011/https://notesfrompoland.com/2018/06/29/poles-and-the-holocaust-new-research-old-controversies/ . 20 June 2019 . 29 July 2018 . live . 20 June 2019 .

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